Peter Nickeas

Peter Nickeas is a general assignment reporter for the Chicago Tribune. He joined the Tribune in 2011 and covered violence for the Tribune’s breaking news desk for seven years. He was a 2018 fellow at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and a 2019 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.

A DeKalb Police Department officer has been assigned to administrative duties as social media picked up the Facebook Live video of a weekend arrest that appeared to show an officer holding a man around his neck, while another officer used a Taser.

Illinois prison officials removed or denied entry to more than 200 books -- many with racial themes -- intended for a program that provides college courses to inmates at a downstate correctional center.